{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}} {{About|the family Synaxidae|the deep-sea decapod discovered in 2005|Kiwaidae}} {{Paraphyletic group | image = Blind furry lobster.jpg | image_caption = ''Palinurellus gundlachi'' | parent = Palinuridae | auto = yes | includes = *''Palinurellus'' *''Palibythus'' }}
'''Furry lobsters''' (sometimes called '''coral lobsters''') are small decapod crustaceans, closely related to slipper lobsters and spiny lobsters.<ref name="Palero">{{cite journal |author1=Ferran Palero |author2=Keith A. Crandall|authorlink2=Keith A. Crandall|author3=Pere Abelló |author4=Enrique Macpherson |author5=Marta Pascual |year=2009 |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=152–162 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2008.10.003 |title=Phylogenetic relationships between spiny, slipper and coral lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Achelata) |pmid=18957325|bibcode=2009MolPE..50..152P }}</ref> The antennae are not as enlarged as in spiny and slipper lobsters, and the body is covered in short hairs, hence the name furry lobster. Although previously considered a family in their own right (Synaxidae <small>Spence Bate, 1881</small>), the furry lobsters were subsumed into the family Palinuridae in 1990.<ref name="M&D">{{cite book |url=http://atiniui.nhm.org/pdfs/3839/3839.pdf |title=An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea |author1=Joel W. Martin |author2=George E. Davis |year=2001 |pages=1–132 |publisher=Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |access-date=2010-06-04 |archive-date=2013-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512091254/http://atiniui.nhm.org/pdfs/3839/3839.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Subsequent molecular phylogenetics studies have confirmed that the furry lobsters genera don't form a natural group and were both nested among the spiny lobster genera in family Palinuridae.<ref name="Palero"/> That family now includes the two furry lobster genera and ten spiny lobster genera.<ref name=WoRMS>{{cite WoRMS |title=Palinuridae |id=106794 |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== There are two genera, with three species between them:<ref>{{cite journal |last=Quinn |first=Brady K. |title=Palaeontological implications of the precedence of the lobster genus Phyllamphion Reinhardt, 1849 over Palinurellus Von Martens, 1878 (Decapoda, Achelata, Palinuridae) |journal=Crustaceana |volume=96 |issue=1 |page=97 |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/cr/96/1/article-p97_9.xml}}</ref> *''Phyllamphion elegans'' <small>Reinhardt, 1849</small> – '''mole lobster''', with an Indo-Pacific distribution *''Phyllamphion gundlachi'' <small>(Von Martens, 1878)</small> – '''Caribbean furry lobster''', found in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic coast of South America; named for Juan Gundlach *''Palibythus magnificus'' <small>P. J. F. Davie, 1990</small> – '''musical furry lobster''', from the South Pacific (originally described from Samoa)
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Category:Achelata Category:Arthropod common names Category:Paraphyletic groups